ESRF Upgrade Programme: Synchrotron radiation instrumentation

Making available state-of-the-art instrumentation and associated enabling technologies are one of the pillars of the Upgrade Programme. Driven by the upgrade beamline projects, many different key technological areas have been identified and tackled.

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Four new beamlines are to be built at the ESRF (The European Synchrotron, Grenoble, France), the world-leading synchrotron X-ray source, ensuring that Europe continues to lead the world in X-ray science. This major project will provide researchers with new tools to gain unprecedented understanding of the complex structure of materials and living matter.

The European Physical Society Accelerator Group (EPS-AG) has awarded the ESRF’s Accelerator & Source Director, Dr. Pantaleo Raimondi, the 2017 Gersh Budker Prize, for his outstanding contribution to the accelerator field in the form of his “invention of the Hybrid Multi Bend Achromat (HMBA) lattice”,

With innovation as a main priority in its support of programmes of excellence in fundamental and applied research, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has decided to support the project ESRF- Extremely Brilliant Source (ESRF-EBS) to the level of 65 million euros.

Synchrotron light has pierced the mysteries of a small 17th Century metallic box thanks to X-ray imaging techniques developed at the ESRF. Scientists were able to virtually reconstitute, in 3D and with astounding resolution, the inaccessible contents of the very fragile and badly damaged box.